“The danger is that, in spite of in-built constitutional (for Burton, “racial”) resistances
to queerness in the native British body, homosexuality can jump the barrier (regionally, biologically). For a British man to have gay sex—even uncharacteristically, even despite his physical and psychological aversion to it—seems just as threatening to heteronormativity as if he were a “real” homosexual”-Harris Vernoy “Orgies of Nameless Horrors”.

“For a time I was no longer a man; my manhood was merged in his. I was, in the extremist sense, an example of passive obedience” (Richard Marsh, The Beetle, 54)

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.” (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)